A suggested application is being able to collect ‘real-time’ emotional response so people don’t have to self-report. What do you think are other possibilities?
On a side note - remember talking to a UX team who were testing VR when it was relatively new and interesting side effect was nausea or motion sickness for participants.
Related to this, direct thought to text interface has now been achieved: Neural interface translates thoughts into type (nature.com) with a larger clinical trial in progress (IIRC). This tech still requires an invasive procedure but the future of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) is very interesting. One does wonder what the ethical implications are beyond accessibility applications - do we really want computers to have access to our innermost feelings?
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Interesting thought, is this simply a tool of translation or is there some curation in this, where do you draw the line I suppose is the ethical debate ahead of us.
I’d be interested in understanding why some people are affected by the motion sickness and others not so much, having tried a number of different of devices myself, it is not something that I have encountered as an issue.